We are official participants in the HR MacMillan Space Centre’s Mars Watch…Iris and Christa are off to the Sports Rehab Clinic to try and take the kinks out of Iris’ body after her first go at a climbing wall yesterday. Hope Dr. Yee can do something for her, otherwise I am going to hear a [...]

For all those Matrix fans out there, here is a new twist on the genre.
Thanks to Jerome for re-appearing in my Inbox after a very long time to let me know he is still alive and kicking and feeling compelled to pass along pieces of cyber-oddity. It is clear he is losing his mind in [...]

I find when I spend a lot of time with the other chickens (Christa and Iris), my English goes downhill…

On Tuesday night the Crazy Chickens and Friends hit the PNE, or Pacific National Exhibition held annually in Vancouver since 1910.
From the City of Vancouver website:
For about two decades, the fair was the second largest in North America after the New York City Fair. Since that time, the site has played host to many famous [...]

I took the Eurochickens (the two Swiss girls Kristin and Christa, and Iris, on a 3-week visit from Germany) to Steveston Village on Friday night, then to Cosmic Bowling at The Zone at the Riverport Entertainment Complex in Richmond. What great fun! I’d only heard about it, but have never been, so that was a [...]

Thanks to Sherri for her friendly reminder on how to spell Liechtenstein… you’d figure I’d get that right because I’ve been there, but I keep forgetting that Liechtenstein follows the saying “i before e except after c” at the beginning and not at the end!
Are there any other names like that????
Just wanted to make an [...]

I was one of those eight women today… but thankfully not the one who had to wear this! It was Tosca’s stagette, and I’m so glad we went rafting instead of the usual drunken debauchery (we could do that anytime). We even had a dude of a rafting guide to keep us cackling like a [...]

I confess: Ananova’s Entertainment section holds great appeal for me. So does Billy Connolly. One of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen was a series he did about his home country of Scotland. In retrospect, it may have been funnier because at the time I’d been living in Scotland for nearly two years, I was [...]

… my cousin Tosca is marrying my former BCIT classmate Mike, five years after they met at my apartment at a party I threw for the annual Fireworks in English Bay. Their wedding is on September 6, and I’m giving a speech!
I’ve never been to a traditional bridal shower before, I’ve only heard stories about [...]

… the Office Meeting From Hell was today (Tuesday morning, now that it’s technically Wednesday). I had to be incredibly diplomatic because the situation called for it. I hope I never have to do that again.
Then I thought of an example in the past of something else I had to do that was difficult: When [...]